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The 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism was an analog computer no one could recreate for centuries

In 1901, sponge divers exploring a shipwreck off the small Greek island of Antikythera pulled up a corroded lump of bronze ...
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The world’s first computer sank 2,000 years ago. Science finally solved one of its biggest mysteries.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an ...